China's economy is so uncertain that the wealthy are turning to an underground network to secretly move cash out of the country

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Wealthy Chinese often send money to Hong Kong, where capital flows are less tightly controlled.

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Baby boomers are often said to be the luckiest generation financially — but millennials will be better off than their parents in retirement, survey finds

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Gen Xers and older millennials are set to replace a bigger proportion of their pre-retirement income once they retire, per a new report by Vanguard.

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The first thing 14 lottery winners have bought after finding out they were rich

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Mega Millions

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An artist who turned in two blank canvases titled 'Take the Money and Run' has now been told to repay $75,000

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An artist who turned in empty frames titled 'Take the Money and Run' has been ordered to pay back $75,000.

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A former biology teacher who bought a small-town bookstore explains how she made the business profitable and competes with behemoths like Amazon

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Adah Fitzgerald bought Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina in 2015.

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I went to college for free in Scotland. Here are 5 things about my experience that Americans may find surprising.

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The author, Mikhaila Friel, graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2018.

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China's richest people are leaning hard into quiet luxury, wielding stealth wealth like a weapon and scorning their flashy, label-chasing peers

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Stealth wealth is in, loud luxury is out.

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Police resorted to guarding ATMs in Ireland after a glitch at the country's biggest bank let some people take out over $1,000 of cash they didn't have

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A woman seen outside the Bank of Ireland (Irish: Banc na Eireann) ATM in Clifden, during the COVID-19 lockdown. On Friday, 23 April 2021, in Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.
A woman uses a Bank of Ireland ATM in 2021.

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The wartime economy is making Russians hoard cold hard cash more than ever — the money in circulation reached a record $187 billion in June

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Russians are hoarding more cash amid the war.

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US workers say they need $1.8 million in savings to be able to retire and list inflation as the biggest obstacle

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Survey respondents cited inflation and stock market volatility as the biggest obstacles to saving for retirement.

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